Elon Musk engages in the dispute between China and Taiwan

 After Tesla CEO Elon Musk declared Taiwan should become a special administrative region of China, Beijing and Taipei have expressed their disagreement.

The richest man in the world stated in an interview with the Financial Times that he thought the two countries could come to a "fairly agreeable" agreement.

Musk received praise from China's ambassador to the US, while his Taiwanese colleague declared that freedom is "not for sale."

Beijing claims Taiwan as part of its territory, while Taiwan is self-governing.

Musk received fire this week for posting a Twitter poll with his ideas for putting an end to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, including Kiev ceding land to Moscow.

Mr. Musk made his remarks as the manufacturer of electric vehicles set a monthly sales record in China.

In a lengthy interview with the UK business journal the Financial Times, which was released on Friday, he commented on the escalating China-Taiwan tensions.

"My recommendation... would be to figure out a special administrative zone for Taiwan that is reasonably palatable, probably won't make everyone happy," he said.

"And it's possible, and I think probably, in fact, that they could have an arrangement that's more lenient than Hong Kong."

Teaser for The Super Mario Bros. Movie released: In a forthcoming movie, Chris Pratt and Jack Black's characters will face battle.

 

The teaser for 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' included a fight between Chris Pratt and Jack Black's characters. On Thursday, viewers got their first look at a brand-new animated film about the famous moustachioed Italian plumbers.

In the teaser trailer, presented during the Nintendo Direct video presentation, the evil Bowser, played by Black, is shown assaulting the Ice Kingdom.

Before he takes over a Mario star power-up, a trademark of the game's franchise, the flaming turtle-like creature and his troop of Koopa Troopas are met by a snowball army of ready-to-fight penguin troops.

In another scenario, Pratt's on-screen character Mario finds himself in a strange mushroom kingdom.

Charlie Day portrays Luigi, Anya Taylor-Joy portrays Princess Peach, Seth Rogen plays Donkey Kong, and Keegan-Michael Key plays Toad in the film.

When it was first announced in September 2021, the Super Mario Bros. movie was previously slated to come out in December 2022. But it has subsequently been postponed until April 2023.

Donald Trump wants to keep two folders that were taken from Mar-a-Lago.

 An investigation of the former US president's management of federal records is focused on a specific group of documents that were seized.

According to court documents in the special master examination of the confiscated documents, Donald Trump is attempting to conceal from the justice department two folders identified as containing correspondence with the National Archives and signing sheets that the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago property.

The former US president's claims of privilege over the folders, which seem to have immediate bearing on the criminal investigation into whether he kept secret information about national defence and obstructed justice, are significant because they show an effort to keep the information private and to keep it out of the investigation.

A study of the court filings revealed that Trump claimed privilege over the contents of one red folder labelled "NARA letters and additional copies" and a second, manilla folder labelled "NARA letters one top sheet + 3 signature sheets."

The filings revealed that the former president also claimed privilege over 35 pages of records titled "The President's Calls" that had the presidential seal in the upper left corner and were written by hand. These records included names, phone numbers, notes about messages, and four blank pages for other notes.

Trump also wants to conceal emails about election fraud charges in Fulton County, Georgia, a 2017 letter about former special counsel Robert Mueller, and discussions about mercy for a certain "MB," Ted Suhl and former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.

Questions about whether Trump was asserting attorney-client or executive privilege over the files containing the National Archives letters were directed to a spokeswoman by a person close to the legal team. A comment from the representative could not be obtained right away.

The records that the former president is attempting to hide from the criminal probe by claiming executive or attorney-client privilege, for example, became clear after a Friday ruling by the special master.

Judge Raymond Dearie of the US District Court, who was designated as the special master tasked with screening the seized files for potential privilege concerns, made the unique identifier numbers for documents for which Trump is not claiming privilege public in the three-page ruling.

The precise nature of the documents being claimed as protected would typically remain a secret. However, the confiscated documents that the justice department's "filter team" designated as potentially privileged were made public earlier in the week due to what appears to have been a docketing error by the court.

The Guardian was able to determine which papers the former president was attempting to keep from the department by comparing the individual document identifier numbers for which Trump was not asserting privilege with the accidentally unsealed list of possibly privileged materials.

According to the order, the special master instructed the "filter team" to transfer any papers that Trump did not judge to be private to the "case team" overseeing the criminal investigation before October 10.

The special master instructed the department and Trump's attorneys to consult after the documents were transferred in order to try and settle any disagreements regarding executive privilege over the remaining records before October 20. He then instructed them to present any unresolved issues to him for decision.

"The Rings of Power" showrunner's break silence on backlash

 The most anticipated and expensive TV show of all time is finally here, but instead of endless praise, The Rings of Power is facing endless trolling.

“This is where everything happens,” says showrunner Patrick McKay. “The War Room.”

Since its Sept. 2 release, Amazon's billion-dollar high fantasy has received both strong critical acclaim (84 percent positive on Rotten Tomatoes) and online fan bashing (its audience score is 39 percent, which includes an unknown degree of "review bombing" at the hands of internet trolls). The show's Nielsen viewership is impressive; the first two episodes were seen by approximately 12.6 million US viewers in its first four days.

However, given that this is Lord of the Rings, the bar is absurdly high. Nobody knows the stakes more than Payne and McKay. They're two first-time showrunners who embarked on an unexpected journey nearly five years ago to make their J.R.R. Tolkien passion project and have now found themselves "on the fault line of the culture war," as McKay puts it, with everyone weighing in, from armies of anonymous Tolkien fans to the world's two richest men. It's difficult to concentrate on writing scripts and managing a cast and crew of 1,300 on the most complicated TV production ever when Elon Musk is slamming you on Twitter.

“Some of what’s been hardest to hear is the cynical point of view that this is a cash grab,” McKay says. “It’s like, oh my God, the opposite. This is the most earnest production. This is not a paycheck job for anybody. This is a labor of love.”

On a Friday in 2017, Amazon received a call from the Tolkien estate's attorneys informing them that they would consider bids for a Lord of the Rings television series. Every entertainment firm, including Prime Video, was searching for "the next Game of Thrones." Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, has always been a lover of Tolkien. It seemed obvious to go for The Lord of the Rings, and an internal "fellowship" was formed to determine how to outbid competitors.

According to sources, HBO pitched the estate on adapting Peter Jackson's acclaimed Lord of the Rings trilogy, which brought in $3 billion and won 17 Academy Awards, to focus on the "Third Age" of Middle-earth. Although the late Christopher Tolkien, the author's son, claimed that Jackson's adaptations "eviscerated" the works, the estate has issues with them and wasn't keen on going over the same territory again. A number of programmes, including a Gandalf series and an Aragorn drama, were proposed by Netflix. One person with knowledge of the negotiations claimed that "they adopted the Marvel approach," which utterly scared out the estate.

In order to win over the estate, Amazon's negotiating team—led by Sharon Tal Yguado, Roy Price, and Dan Scharf—promised to maintain a close relationship and offer it a creative seat at the table so it could safeguard Tolkien's legacy. The money was obviously another factor. Sources claim that the astronomical amount ($250 million) that has been widely published was actually Netflix's proposal and that Amazon's number was tens of millions less (albeit, still staggering).

“It was our collective passion and fidelity to Tolkien that really won the day,” says Amazon Studios TV co-head Vernon Sanders (who came on board in 2018 as part of an executive shakeup which included Price being ousted for a misconduct claim, Jen Salke joining as Amazon Studios chief and Albert Cheng being installed as TV Co-Head).

When Payne, 42, and McKay, 41, heard from their reps that Rings was heading to TV, "a shiver ran through us." McKay says. They first met in junior high in Northern Virginia and became friends when they joined the same high school debate team. They relocated to Los Angeles and struggled for years as screenwriters without a big break. Their last job was at Bad Robot, where they wrote scripts and worked on many projects, including an abandoned Star Trek film.

 “We had reached a point — we’d been writing movies for 10 years that should have gotten made,” McKay says. “Movies where the director was right, the cast was right, the script was right, the title was right and it was a big IP — and it still wasn’t happening. So [we thought] maybe we should try this TV thing.”

Scientists have discovered a new type of blood group

In UK hospital, a mother with unborn baby, doctors get to know that there was something wrong with the fetus's blood.

So they performed an emergency C-section surgery many weeks before the baby's due.

But despite of the efforts because of subsequent blood transfusions, the baby suffered a brain hemorrhage and sadly passed away.

Doctor's didn't understand, why the bleeding happened. Mother's blood have a clue in which doctors found some strange anti-bodies in the mothers blood. Medics tried to learn more about them, a sample of the mothers blood was sent to a lab in Bristol which is run by researchers who studies different types of blood groups.

The results were shocking, they said that mothers blood had an ultra rare type as they made a new discovery. Because of this, it made her baby's blood incompatible with her own. Mother's body immune system produced antibodies against the baby's blood and harmed the baby, ultimately leading to its loss.

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Intervene in Review of Mar-a-Lago records case

WASHINGTON — Ex-President Donald Trump pointed out a crisis demand on Tuesday referencing that the High Court mediate for the situation including mentioned records he kept at Mar-a-Lago after he left office.

Trump's lawyers asked the court to allow an action to review classified documents federal agents seized from Trump's estate in Florida.

In doing subsequently, Trump's lawyers requested that the court void piece of a decision given on Sept. 21 by the eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Requesting, which said the Worth Division could continue to utilize accumulated records taken from Mar-a-Lago in its criminal evaluation.

"This unwarranted stay should be vacated as it impairs substantially the ongoing, time-sensitive work of the Special Master," Trump's attorneys wrote in the recording Tuesday. "Moreover, any limit on the comprehensive and transparent review of materials seized in the extraordinary raid of a President’s home erodes public confidence in our system of justice."

The anticipated decision last month by the three-judge board, the previous president's genuine teachers said, truly put down exactly a sensible split the difference "the dependability of the deep rooted plan against piecemeal savvy survey" and dismissed "the District Court's finished watchfulness without monitor."

The High Court asked the Worth Office on Tuesday to record a reaction to Wellbeing's by Oct. 11 at 5 p.m. The court won't act before it gets that reaction, meaning the lower court administering stays set up until extra notice.

To get what he truly needs, Trump would require five adjudicators to concur with him. However the court has a 6-3 moderate greater part, including three adjudicators he named, Trump hasn't fared well in other such crisis applications, including his endeavor to keep White House records from being given up to the House gathering investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. State house and his bid to keep away from transparency of his cash related records to examiners in New York.